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Philip Roth

That's what you're looking fo...

That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

The road to hell is paved wit...

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

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Philip Roth

Let me tell you about the nap...

Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

As I see it, my focus has nev...

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

Literature isn't a moral beau...

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

Novel-writing is, for the nov...

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

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Philip Roth

I'm not good at finding 'enco...

I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

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Philip Roth

A Jew without Jews, without J...

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

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Philip Roth

Writing is frustration - it's...

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

A Jewish man with parents ali...

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

Routinely, when I finish a bo...

Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

Life is just a short period o...

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

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Philip Roth

I don't know any writer for w...

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

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Philip Roth

With the draft, everybody was...

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

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Philip Roth

Should you protect profits? Y...

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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Philip Roth

I've stopped reading fiction....

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

For all I know, I am beginnin...

For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.

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Philip Roth

At night, I read. I read for ...

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

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Philip Roth

I do the same kind of rewriti...

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Philip Roth 185 quotes
Philip Roth

Obviously the facts are never...

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

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